For the conclusion, I have in the main followed another version (containing the death of Fergus only), given in the SEANCUS MOR and finely versified by Sir Samuel Ferguson in his POEMS, 1880.
_The Story of Etain and Midir_.

This beautiful and very ancient romance is extant in two distinct versions, both of which are translated by Mr A.H.Leahy in his HEROIC ROMANCES.

The tale is found in several MSS., among others, in the twelfth century BOOK OF THE DUN COW (LEABHAR NA H-UIDHRE).

It has been recently made the subject of a dramatic poem by "Fiona Macleod." _How Ethne quitted Fairyland_ is taken from D'Arbois de Jubainville's CYCLE MYTHOLOGIQUE IRLANDAIS, ch.xii.4.The original is to be found in the fifteenth century MS., entitled THE BOOK OF FERMOY.
_The Boyhood of Finn_ is based chiefly on the MACGNIOMHARTHA FHINN, published in 1856, with a translation, in the _TRANSACTIONS OF THE OSSIANIC SOCIETY_, vol.iv.I am also indebted, particularly for the translation of the difficult _Song of Finn in Praise of May_, to Dr Kuno Meyer's translation published in _Eriu_ (the Journal of the School of Irish Learning), vol.i.pt.

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_The Coming of Finn_, _Finns Chief Men_, the _Tale of Vivionn_ and _The Chase of the Gilla Dacar_, are all handfuls from that rich mine of Gaelic literature, Mr Standish Hayes O'Grady's SILVA GADELICA.